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I clean human ‘matumbo’

Dr Shchukina is a specialist

We all learnt in science classes that digestion starts in the mouth and the by-products somehow have to find an exit. What we may not know however, is that some of the ‘junk’ is never really ‘drained’ out. You may be asking yourself how this could possibly happen.

Well, there’s a belief that undigested meat and other foods cause mucus build-up in the colon, which produces toxins that poison the body. If these do not come out, intestines may rot.

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